Machine cabinet



. Det. 9, 1941. H. EQTAUTZ MACHINE CABINET Flle'd Dec. 12, 1938 "2 Sheets-Sheet l ATTORNEY Dec. 9, 1941.v I H, E TAUTZ I 2,265,406

MACHINE CABINET Filed Dec. l2, 1938 2 Sheets-Sheet 2l FIG. 5 4145.54@ 16 /NVENTOR ATTORNEY Patented Dec. 9, 19.41

MACHINE CABINET Herbert E. Tautz, Milwaukee, Wis., assigner to The Delta. Manufacturing Company, Milwaukee, Wis., a corporation of' Wisconsin Application December 12, 1938, SerialNo. 245,199

4 Claims.

This invention relates to cabinets or housings for power-driven tools and other machines.

An object of the invention is to provide a machine cabinet which combines strength, rigidity and durability with light weight construction, which will facilitate accurate mounting of machine parts, which possesses a smooth and neat appearance, and which can be manufactured at relatively low cost.

The invention further consists in the several features hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, wherein by way of example the invention is shownto be embodied in a circular saw of the tilting arbor type;

Fig. 1 is a front elevation of the circular saw, parts being broken away and parts being shown in section;

Fig. 2 is a top view ofthe saw with the table thereof removed, and parts being broken' away;

Fig. 3 is a sectional view taken generally along the line 3-3 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 4 is a sectional elevation taken generally along the line 4-4 of Fig. 2;

Fig. 5 is a sectional elevation taken generally along the line 5-5 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 6 is a sectional elevation taken generally along the line 6-6 of Fig. 2;

Fig. 7`is a detail sectional elevation of the table mounting;

Fig. 8 is a detail sectional elevation taken generally along the line 8-8 of Fig. 3;

Fig. 9 is a detail sectional elevation taken generally along the line 9-'9 of Fig. 2, and

Fig. 10 is a detail plan view of a corner portion of the cabinet.

In these drawings, I5 designates an upright tubular casing on which is mounted a work-supporting table or platform I6 and circular sawl mechanism hereinafter described.. The casing I5 is here indicated to be of rectangular boxlike shape and comprises vertical side' walls formed by four connected panels I1 of suitable gauge sheet metal, each panel being bent to an -united casing sections and are rigidly secured thereto, preferably by spot welding 23, Fig. 3. A sheet metal bottom plate 24 is rigidly secured to the bottom faces of the inturned flanges I9, as by bolts 25 passing through the gusset plates and flanges. The corner portions of the bottom plate 24 rest on flanged cast metal feet 26 which project beyond the planes of the cabinet side walls and are rigidly secured in place by the bolts 25, each foot having a slotted bottom flange 21,

Fig. 4, to facilitate fastening to a floor. A fiat sheet metal top plate 28, preferably of heavier stock than the cabinet side walls, yrests on the inturned top flanges I8 of the side walls and is rigidly secured thereto, preferably by spot welding 29 at suitable intervals. As best seen in Fig.

2, the top plate 28 is in the form of a rectangular loop. 'I'he sheet' metal top plate presents an accurate flat top surface for mounting various members hereinafter described, and is provided adjacent its corner portions with bolt-receiving openings 30 and 3|, Fig. 10. The frontkand rear edges of the top plate project outwardly from the cabinet walls. The various parts of the cabinet. are held in suitable jigs during attachment, so as to provide accurate assembly.

- The front Wall of the cabinet has an opening 32 for a removable door 33, the wall having inwardly projecting complementary anges 34, Fig. 3, around the opening, and the flanges having stop ears 35 for the door. 'I'he flanges 34 form continuations of the casing flanges 20. A cam plate 36 is spot welded to the cabinet along the flanged upper edge of the dooropening, and the door carries a latch 31 with a swingable bolt 3B engageable with the cam plate. vides access to the interior of the cabinet and permits removal of sawdust or other debris. The cabinet also has other openings as hereinafter described. y

The work-supporting table or platform I6 is detachably mounted on the top plate of the cabinet and is provided with tapped embossments 39, Figs. `4 and 7, which rest on the corner portions of the top plate and which are rigidly secured thereto by screws 40 passing through the openings 30 of the top plate, the table being suitably ribbed on its underside. The machine illustrated is a tilting arbor circular saw, and the table is accordingly provided with the usual-saw slot 4I, preferably formed in a detachable insert plate 42, to receive therethrough a circular saw blade 43. The table also has the-usual guideways 44 extending parallel to the saw blade, and is capable of a slight angular adjustment on The door prothe cabinet to'p plate 2l to secure lsuchparallelism, this adjustment being effected before the screws 46 are fully tightened. The table and cabinet provide a mutual bracing eilect so' as to improve the rigidity of the machine.

A pair of apertured front and rear frame mema,ae5,-4oo Y,

pnedltethe eabinet te can-y es most of the sawdust.

bers or trunnion brackets 45 and 46, respectively,

are placed in the cabinet adjacent the front and rear walls thereof, each bracket having ears 41 at opposite ends resting on the Atop plate 26 ofv the cabinet and rigidly secured thereto by bolts Y- 46 passing through the top plate openings 3|. One of the ears on the rear bracket, 46, is here `ing arcuate tongue-and-groove pivotal connections with the trunnion brackets, and the pivotal axis of the cradle lying substantially in the plane of the table top'and in the plane of the saw blade 43. A rock shaft 541s journalled in the fornt portion of the yoke 53 and carries an In'vr the operation of the machine, the saw arbor is 'driven by the electric motor 56 and work is passed over the table to be cut by the rotating saw blade. The saw may be raised or lowered by turning the hand-wheel 61, and may be tilted by turning the hand-wheel 12.

The table I6 and the trunnion brackets 45 and 46 are secured to the top plate 25 of the cabinet at points adjacenty the corners of the cabinet, which are the regionsv of maximum stiiness, each. trunnion lear being adjacent a l shown to be widened, Fig. 2, and to be -fastened 'A of thesame dies and tools can be used for all arm 55 in the -forked free end of whichl is jourv nailed an arbor- 56 for the saw blade, the axes of the shaft 54 and saw arbor56 being parallel. 'I'he rock shaft 54 also carries an arm 51 on ywhiehan eIectric motor sa is. ad'justamy mounted,

the motor having a multiple V-belt drive 59 with the saw arbor. 'I'he rear trunnion 52 carries a detachably mounted splitter 66, Fig. 5, which extends through the slotted insert plate 42, and

pointof connection of the table. The top plate provides a smooth 'and accurate top surface without need, for machining. Although the cabinet is of relatively light weight it possesses the requisite rigidity. The inturned vertical flanges 26 of the casing sections and the inturned flanges around the various openings also improve the rigidity. The'cabinet presents a smooth and neat appearance, and no' welding marks are visible after the machine is set up for use.-

The four angular sheet metal casing sections l1 may be formed from identical blanks, it b'eing only necessary to vary the positions of the openings and notches. This greatlyreduces the expense of dies and tools for these parts, as many four of these sections.

While the invention is here shown to be embodied in a circular saw, the invention is also applicable to other machines, such as Shapers. The size, position and number of the side wall openings'will varyin diierent machines, but in. 4many instances the same casing section blanks may be used.

the front trunnion carries a suitable sawdust guard 6|. l

The saw arbor and motor are raised and lowered by a sector 62 on the arm 55, Fig. 5,

meshing with a worm 63 on a horizontal shaft 64 journalled in the front and rear trunnion brackets, the sector having stop projections 65 engageable with ends of the worm. The shaft 64 extends through an arcuate slot 66 in the front wall of the cabinet and carries a handwheel 61 anda suitable locking vdevice 66. 'I'he saw arbor is tiltable between limit posi-- The specific wood working machine disclosed is shown and claimed in my copending applications Serial No. 252,744, led January 25, 1939;` Serial N0. 259.095, filed March 1, 1939,' and Serial No. 269,343, led April 22, 1939.

. What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In a machine cabinet, a plurality of sheet metal'panels forming a cabinet of generally'rectangular shape in plan and having four substantions by means'of a `sector 69 on the front trunnion 5I, Fig. 6, meshing with a worm -10 on a horizontal shaft 1I journalled in the front trunnion bracket 45, the sector being confined against lateral movement by a guide member '69 secured to this bracket. The shaft 1l extends through a side wsu or the cabinet and the clamping plate 56and carries a hand-wheel 12 and a suitable locking devicel 13.

'I'he opposite side wall of the cabinet has an blower or suction device, not shown, maybe ap-v tially vertical walls, said panels extending substantially vertically in side-by-side relationship,

the side edges of each panel being bent to provide an inwardly directed flange; and means for securing the neighboring anges of said panels together in tightly engaging relationship, so as to rigidly maintain the cabinet in assembled condition and provide a plurality of double-hanged stift'ening seams .extending along the mid-portions of the four walls thereof, two adjacentpanels having anged mating recesses therein cooperating to provide an opening in'one side wall of said cabinet, the anges of said recesses merging into the flanges of the side edges of said two adjacent panels.

2. In a machine cabinet, a generally rectangular cabinet made up of a plurality of sheet metal panels rigidly secured together in side-by-side relationshipand terminating at its upper edge in yan inwardly directed ange; a generally rec- Thecabinet side walls are l inwardly flanged around the motor opening 14 'and the arcuate slots 66 and 11. Ii desired, a'

tangular frame rigidly secured to the upper side of said ange; a machine support disposed within'said cabinet and having a pair of upwardly and outwardly directed supporting portions, said supporting portions resting upon the upper side of said frame and having means for rigidly securing them thereto, a top member on said cabinet Vand completely covering said frame; and

edge in an inwardly directed flange; a generally rectangular frame rigidly secured to the upper side of said `ange; a machine support disposed within sait. cabinet and having a pair of upwardly and outwardly directed supporting portions, said supporting portions resting-upon the upper side of said frame and having means for rigidly securing them thereto, said machine support also having a third supporting portion extending downwardly in said cabinet and terminating in a clamping face lying flush against the inner surface of one of said'upright walls, and means for rigidly securing said one Wallin tight surface engagement with the clamping face of said third supporting portion of said machine support.

4. 1n a machine cabinet, a generally rectangular cabinet made up of a plurality of sheet metal panels rigidly secured together in side-by-slde relationship and terminating at its upper edge in an inwardly directed flange; a generally rectangular frame rigidly secured to the upper side of said ange; a machine support disposed Within said cabinet and having apair of upwardly and l outwardly directed supporting portions, said supporting portions resting upon the upper side of said frame and having means for rigidly securing them thereto, a table member having a plurality of downwardly directed clamping faces provided on its lower surface designed for direct engagement with predetermined areas of said frame, and having recess means to receive the parts of said supporting portions which project above said frame, .and means for securing said table member to said frame, with the latter in clamping engagement with the clamping faces of said table member independently of said supporting portions. I

HERBERT E.TAUTZ. 

